health care policy

Enhancing Access Via Medical Freedom — Call It MSA Empowerment by Miguel A. Faria, MD

Despite the assurances by managed care proponents that health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and other forms of managed care would solve the duel problem of spiraling health care costs and the rising number of the uninsured, that has not been the case. Public-private partnerships and managed care health initiatives which have been promoting the herding of […]

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Vaccines (Part I): Jenner, Pasteur, and the Dawn of Scientific Medicine

Introduction With the issue of mandatory vaccination programs for infants and children, lines have been drawn in the sand. On one side, we find concerned parents, increasingly being supported by dissenting physicians and scientists troubled by the serious side effects of vaccines, which have, in fact, been reported with greater frequency, including serious neurological deficits

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Code Blue: Health Care in Crisis by Edward R. Annis

This is a great book. It shows how American medicine is being socialized to the detriment of patients. On managed competition/care, the author observes, “Government cannot preserve high quality health care, prompt service, and freedom of choice without allowing health care providers the freedom to meet demand; Government cannot reduce the regulatory burden…government cannot apply

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Overdose of Socialism

On June 23, 1995, a swarm of armed men invaded the Mason, West Virginia medical office of Dr. Danny R. Westmoreland. With their guns drawn, the intruders ordered everyone, including a nine-year-old child, to stand against a wall while the office was ransacked. The marauders were agents of the federal “health police,” and they had

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Patient Privacy and Confidentiality — Time to Draw the Line

These new standards could serve as the backbone of a cradle-to-grave medical record on each and every American.Denise Nagel, MDPresident, National Coalition for Patient Rights Physicians’ survival will depend on their ability to articulate eloquently to the public the fact that they have been and remain their patients’ best advocates. If physicians are not successful

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